Finally, in 2008, she committed suicide by drug overdose in her car. Following her not-so-glorious audition, Goodspeed faced ridicule that led to deep depression, which grew with her failed attempts to reach Abdul. In an interview before her performance (shown above), Goodspeed said that she had been a big fan of Abdul since she was a little girl and showed off her many drawings of the singer. When Paula Goodspeed auditioned for the fifth season of American Idol in 2006, she was rejected by all three judges before you could say “Goodspeed.” Her namesake, Paula Abdul, was one of those judges. After that, he was placed in a psychiatric institution. Eventually, Nau suffered a delusion that his step-brother had turned into an animal, so Nau killed him with an axe. He also believed that Maria had replaced Newton-John with an evil impostor.Īfter returning to the US, Nau moved back into his parents’ home and started engaging in all kinds of bizarre behavior, including sleeping inside a dead cow. He believed that someone named Maria had bewitched Newton-John to prevent her from responding to Nau. Twice in the early 1980s, Nau traveled to Australia, where he unsuccessfully tried to track her down. While he wandered through the hot Arizona desert, he experienced a vision telling him that Olivia Newton-John loved him and needed him. Nau’s obsession with Newton-John started after a paid pen pal named Cindy broke his heart. Lau felt so much guilt over the suicide that he was forced to seek psychiatric help.įamous singer/actress Olivia Newton-John had more than one stalker during the 1980s, but the most dedicated was Ralph Nau. The incident led to hundreds of similar suicide threats by Lau’s fans, who said they’d kill themselves if he refused to meet them. Yang’s father threatened to kill himself if Lau refused to meet with his daughter and “save her.” Tragically, it wasn’t an empty threat: He ended his life the next day by jumping into the sea. When Yang finally met Lau in 2007 at a birthday party that had been organized for the fans, taking a photo with him wasn’t enough. In order to fund his daughter’s trips to Lau’s concerts, Yang’s father, a retired teacher, sold their house and even considered selling his kidney at one point. The obsession of one of them, 29-year-old Yang Lijuan, cost her father his life.Īfter having a dream about Lau at age 17, Yang quit school and turned into a full-time Lau fan for the next 12 years. Mostly known in the west for his 2002 film Infernal Affairs (which was later remade into the 2006 film The Departed), Hong Kong actor and singer Andy Lau had his own share of unwanted experiences with fans.

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